Street construction.



O. N. STEVENS.

STREET CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED APEJS, 1914.

1,116,857, Patented N0v.10,1914.

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CHESTER 5N. STEVENS, 0 F KENILWOB'I'H, EJ411018.

STREET CONSTRUCTION.

lpeelficntinn 01' Letters pleat.

Patented Nov. 10,1914;

Application fled April 18, 1914. Serial No. 831;,588.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnn's'rm N. Silvana,

I a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the town of Kenilworth, 1n the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street Construction; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to improvements ina street construction, and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and methods of con-.

struction, as hereinafter first fully setforth and described and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing already mentioned which serves to illustrate my invention more fully, Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a street or thoroughfare embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a fragment thereof, and Fig. 3 a plan of a street intersection wherein my said invention is employed.

Like parts are designated by corresponding characters or symbols of reference in all the figures of the drawing. p

The essence of my invention resides in the provision of means to reduce the great loss of life in large cities caused through collisions between automobiles and other vehicles and pedestrians.- I have observed that the majority of these accidents are due to pedestrians crossing .streets between blocks, as it were, where, when the traflic is Automobiles often become unmanageable and. crash into street curbin over side walks, and into show win ows, almost always resulting in injury to one or more persons. Horses become beyond control, with the same result. It is therefore, another alm of my invention to establish means preventing the encroachment upon side walks b horses or motor propelled vehlcles as in icated above.

' Still another aim of myinventi'on is to provide a construction which will lend itself harmoniously to the city beautiful plans now being advocated in many municipalities. A t

1 accomplish the desired results as dis closed in thedrawing, in which A indicates a'street or thoroughfare and A an intersecting or cross street.

5B and B denote the sidewalks-and G and C the building lines on either side of lanes of traflic.

1) indicates the street surfacing and D Y knees of a man of average height. Along the upper edge of this wall is produced an integral cap H and H. Said ca wall and footing are of concrete, cast en Zoo in sections of suitable length as indicated in 0,

Fig. 2, and are set in place the same manner as the resent day curbing-is. laced in osition. uitable reinforcing "ro s P and stiflen the cap, wall and footing thereof in an obvious manner.

'Formed in and depressed below the surface of the sidewalks B and B adjacent the walls G and G are gutters R and R; and

produced in said walls and communicating with said tters are through openings or scuppers and S. The object of these gutters. and scuppers is to permit the outflow of surface water on the sidewalks into the street gutters formed by the curbing E.

The curbing, .wall, and cap sections extend the entire length of a block, save for a short distance at each intersecting street as seen at T Fig. 3, and form a bulwark against encroachment upon'the side walk by unmanageable motor vehicles or runaway horses. While pedestrians wishing to cross a street are secured in the concrete. section 0 to may, of course, step over the bulwark, yet the presence thereof is a constant reminderof the dangers of crossing at that point.

Lamp posts 10 may be placed at suitable distances apart upon the cap H of the wall G or G and the whole construction will lend itself harmoniously to the city beautifulplans being advocated throughout the country.

In front of entrances to large buildings, stores, and the likeblocks Z shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, may be placed adjacent'the walls G, G whereby passengers in automostep from said vehicles tothe top of said walls and on to said blocks Z to-the sidewalk. 7 g

It is to be understood that the curb, wall, and cap sections may be made at a point remote from the place of installation, or suitable forms may be set up when a street pavement is laid down'and the curbs and walls produced in place in'an obvious manner.

Another distinctadvantage of my invention is that the emplo ment thereof would eliminate the splash o mud and water due biles, drawn up alongside said walls, may

to the passage of street sprinklers which now spray a portion of the sidewalks in passing, to the great detriment of the clothing of nearby pedestrians. The splashing of mud from passing automobiles will also be prevented.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to giyself by Letters Patent of the United tates:

In combination, a street surface and base,

curbing having a footing embedded in said base, sidewalks; adjacent said curbing, and

side walls, integrally formed with said curbing,- extending above the surface of said side walks, and'forming bulwarks at the outer edges thereof, there being longitudinal gutters in said side walks adjacent said side walls and openings through said walls communicating with said gutters.

In testimony whereof, I have ,hereunto set my hand in the presenceioftwo subscribing witnesses. p .1.

CHESTER N. STEVENS.

In the presence of- I I W.,Hannme, C. S. STARK. 

